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=How did the Vietnam War end, and what were its lasting effects?= Vietnam had a lot of lasting effects.When the troops came back they came back to many mixed reactions. They didnt get the honor or respect they deserve. It was not there fault, when the country called and asked them to take a role in helping their country they did. Also, the Wars Power Act came out of it too. The Wars Power Act didnt give the president so much freedom like the other, but instead it restricted the presidents war making abilitys without consulting the congress 48 hours after initaltion.



[|Ending the Vietnam War]

It was abundant that Nixon was a determined man with an abundant political talent. He realized as soon as he became president that ending the Vietnam War was the key to everything else he hoped to achieve. The American and South Vietnamese wanted all communist troops out of South Vietnam. They also wanted POWS returned. Which are prisoners of war. While that being thought and put into action North Vietnamese demanded an immediate American withdraw from Vietnam and the formation of coalition government in South Vietnam that would include representatives from the Vietcong! North Vietnam refused to budge from in initial position. Adding on to that, the South refused to sign any agreement that compromised its security. Nixon planned to set up Vietnamization, and to deserve peace with honor. He pulled out U.S forces, hoping that with continued American aid behind the front lines, the ARVN would fight its own battles to secure South Vietnam. To reduce the flow of communist supplies to Vietcong...Nixon ordered the secret bombing oh the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Cambodia. In the end neither Vietnamization nor secret bombings dramatically improved South Vietnam's Chances of winning a war against the communists.

Nixon inherited 2 things from Johnson, an unpopular war, and a vocal American opposition to it. Nixon found it increasingly difficult to achieve his goals and satisfy the snowballing antiwar movement. Nixon, after a year in presidency not achieving what he wanted, and the war becoming a stalemate, decided to address the American people. Informing them that he was going to carry on the war in Cambodia. His excuse was that the war had became a measure of home committed the U.S was to preserving freedom around the world. That was when more violence erupted in many places. An example would be at Kent State. They threw rocks and bottles at members of The National Guard. Finally, the police and everyone fired a shot. Killing four college students. In response on May 8, 1970, there was a anti-war rally in downtown New York City. Many people decided to carry American flags and chant " ALL THE WAY USA! " A fight later broke out, because they though people spit on the flags. Days later thousands of people peacefully marched through Manhattans streets in support of Nixon war effort. The American Home front became its own physical and emotional battlefield. In Vietnam, American troops ran across My Lai, it was a recipe for disaster. Our unit began shooting and killing unarmed civilians. During that time at My Lai, we killed between 4 & 5 hundred unarmed Vietnamese.

=THE WAR FINALLY ENDS!?=

Nixon finally was fed up, and done trying. So he tried to search for a final way out of this conflict! Congress pressed Nixon to bring the remaining troops home! Many also believe that to win the re-election in 1972, he had to end the war. In October 1972, The U.S and North Vietnam came to terms on a PEACEFUL statement. But Nixon's triumph fell apart when North Vietnam refused to sign it. Finally in January 1973, North, South Veitnam, US, and Vietcong all agreeed on the Paris Peace Accords. They agreed to a cease-fire and a U.S troop withdrawl from South Vietnam. The POWS would be exchanged,but North Vietnamese Troops would stay in South Vietnam. For the US the war was over, but for Vietnam it continued. By the end of April, the communist tooken Saigon. After decades of fighting and millions of death. Vietnam was unified under one flag.